An investigator said a man confessed to killing a woman and directing others to clean up his bloodied vehicle nearly 40 years ago.

In the second day of Wilson Chouest's preliminary hearing in Ventura County Superior Court, county district attorney investigator Steve Rhods testified Chouest told someone he 'met a broad and killed her' sometime in the week of July 10, 1980.

Prosecutors said Chouest, 64, is responsible for the July 1980 killings of an unidentified pregnant woman whose body was found at Westlake High School's upper parking lot and another unidentified female victim whose body was found in an almond orchard in Kern County.

Chouest could face a maximum of three consecutive life sentences if he is held to face the murder charges of the two women and the fetus the pregnant victim was carrying, Senior Deputy District Attorney John Barrick said.

Chouest also could face several special allegations, including engaging in the commission of rape, attempted rape and committing more than one offense of murder. The killings remained unsolved until a 2012 search of a DNA database of people arrested across the United States linked Chouest to DNA collected from the victims and their clothing, officials said.

Rhods said Tuesday he interviewed Chouest in prison on Sept. 17, 2013. During that interview, Chouest said he had sex with prostitutes who were 'white girls.' When asked what ethnic race Ventura County Jane Doe was, however, Rhods said the woman was Hispanic.

Rhods testified Chouest was living with a woman named Carolyn Bell and her three teenage sons in Kings County right after Chouest was paroled in June 1980.

Rhods said it was sometime during the week of July 10, 1980, when Chouest instructed the then teenage boys to clean his car. Rhods interviewed one of the sons, Scott Bell, in 2013 who said he and his brothers vacuumed blood from the floorboard of Chouest's car.

'He said it was a lot of blood, door to door and he said it was at least 2 inches deep,' Rhods testified. 'According to Scott, Mr. Chouest gave him two knives to bleach and told him he had gone out in Bakersfield, picked up some broad, took her out to the country and killed her.'

Chouest told the other two brothers he had hit a deer and placed it in the back of the vehicle to get it out of the roadway, Rhods testified.

Dr. Silvia Comparini, who was the forensic pathologist and Kern County medical examiner at the time, testified Tuesday that the woman found on July 15, 1980, in the almond orchard had 18 stab wounds to the chest and upper part of the abdomen and a total of nine 'defensive' wounds to both hands.

Comparini said there was no evidence of injury to Kern County Jane Doe's genitals, but added she still believes the woman was raped. She said toxicology showed the woman had a blood alcohol level of 0.29 percent. When asked if the blood alcohol level increases as a body starts to decompose, Comparini said yes.

Asked by Andre Nintcheff of the Public Defender's Office if it was possible that Kern County Jane Doe could have had sex and the semen could have remained inside her genitals even after if the woman stood up, Comparini said yes.

When pressed further by Nintcheff whether Jane Doe could've had consensual sex before she consumed alcohol and then was killed, Comparini replied: 'All I know is ... at the time, she was not capable of defending herself or doing something contrary to what happened.'

'Ventura County Jane Doe' was found July 18, 1980, at about 12:35 p.m. at the upper parking lot of Westlake High School. That unidentified woman, who was about 20 weeks pregnant, was stabbed 16 stab times in the chest, abdomen, stomach and butt, said Dr. C. Peter Speth, a former county assistant medical examiner who testified Monday.

The preliminary hearing will continue at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

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